Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes and Victor Lindelof launch UNICEF campaign for Ukraine

Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes and Victor Lindelof have launched a UNICEF campaign to help the people of Ukraine.

Back in February, Russian forces invaded the neighbouring country and in doing so created the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two. To help those affected by the war, humanitarian charity UNICEF has been providing clean water, health care and other critical services for millions of children and their families in Ukraine.

After discussions, Fernandes and Lindelof decided that they wanted to help UNICEF with their efforts. The Portuguese midfielder explained: "Victor and I spoke at the training ground about the situation in Ukraine and were talking about ways in which we might be able to do something that could help.

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"After we talked with UNICEF, we realised the most impactful thing we could do at this moment would be to raise what we can for their appeal in Ukraine." To do this a prize draw in aid of UNICEF was launched with plenty of United and sports prizes up for grabs.

Prizes in the draw range from a private tour of Manchester United's training ground to signed items from the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, David de Gea, Tyson Fury and Paul Pogba. The draw began at 10am today (Thursday, May 26) and will run until Thursday, June 9.

“It is amazing how the whole family within football will come together for a cause like this and be generous with how they can help," Lindelof added. "UNICEF has told us that there are more than 2.2 million children in need of humanitarian assistance so Bruno and I have come together wanting to do what we can to help with that